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Testseek.co.uk have collected 295 expert reviews of the Sony Xperia Play and the average rating is 74%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Sony Xperia Play.
 
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The editors liked

  • The only Android phone to do gaming ‘properly'
  • Slide-out gaming controls are well built and comfortable
  • Feels fast
  • Decent build quality
  • The nearest gaming experience to a Sony PSP or Nintendo DS Lite that we’ve seen on a smartphone
  • Thanks to the slideout gaming pad
  • Works well as a smartphone
  • Lots of recent smartphones boast a host of impressive games
  • And some of them even offer decent graphics
  • But nothing comes close to the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play when it comes to control. The sliding lower half with proper buttons mean you'll be able to control games accurately and comfortably
  • And it's a lot more fun than using touchscreen buttons. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play also tops the li
  • Gaming pad is well designed
  • Sony Ericsson's take on Android has some nice features and is easily compensated where it lacks features
  • Battery life when gaming is pretty good
  • Controls really do work
  • Excellent rapidfire gameplay
  • Intuitive user interface
  • Physcial controls better for gaming than the usual touchscreen
  • More games than the Android Market
  • Good quality audio

The editors didn't like

  • Poor games
  • Poor controls
  • Screen was dim and washed out
  • Games offering is weak
  • Confusing software
  • Classic PlayStation titles are expensive
  • Rather dim display
  • Umer Reports
  • The gaming pad buttons feel good under the fingers and are comfortable to use
  • But the touchpads are not so responsive
  • And the shoulder buttons are spongy.
  • Unfortunately
  • Sony can't back up with Xperia Play's hardware with a world-beating games catalogue. Yes
  • There are some fun titles
  • But there's nowhere near the same amount that you'll find on something like the Nintendo 3DS – or even the Apple iPhone – and games bought for the Sony PSP are also incompatible.
  • Gaming delivery is a little disparate
  • Screen needs to be brighter
  • It really needs some exciting gaming titles
  • Video capture is unnecessarily poor
  • Screen
  • Launch titles are just as fun on other phones
  • Controls still aren't as good as a real handheld console
  • Having three separate places to download games isn't very practical
  • No support for PSP games and you need to buy PSN games you already own

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  Published: 2011-05-23, Author: Nicole , review by: cnet.com

  • The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play ships with Android 2.3 Gingerbread without a complicated overlay. It has a slide-out game pad that makes gameplay more immersive, and it comes preloaded with popular game titles like Crash Bandicoot and Asphalt 6. Features in
  • The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play's touch-screen gaming controls are not as responsive and precise as we would like, photo quality is average at best, and it lacks an HDMI port and 4G LTE
  • The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is a significant step forward in mobile gaming, but it suffers from key hardware limitations.

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  Published: 2011-05-21, review by: phandroid.com

  • Abstract:  If you’ve been keeping up with Android news and release dates, you would know that the release of the Sony Xperia Play for Verizon is fast approaching us (May 26th to be exact). While attending Google I/O last week I was actually one of the lucky few w...

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  Published: 2011-05-20, Author: Simon , review by: intomobile.com

  • Abstract:  The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is launching on Verizon next week, bringing classic portable gaming to smartphones. I just got the Rogers model this afternoon, and it's been hard to stop my day from evaporating into a haze of video games. The Play, as you m...

 
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  Published: 2011-05-15, review by: mobile-review.com US

  • I like the idea of a gaming phone I remember discussing it with the first Sony Ericsson CEO Miles Flint in 2006. Five years have passed and the market has changed a lot – now gaming shifts to regular phones and tablets. Their controls are optimized fo...

 
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  Published: 2011-05-04, review by: thereviewcrew.com

  • When it comes to gaming the Xperia Play certainly rises above the competition. Gaming feels natural on the device and the Playstation style controls are hard to beat. That being said there are some strange omissions. Not being able to record HD video i...

 
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  Published: 2011-04-29, review by: geeky-gadgets.com

  • Abstract:  It’s been almost three years and the whole $1 app ecosystem the App Store embodies still makes old school video game industry people about as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a rocking chair factory. Microsoft is looking at it from the bottom of a well,...

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  Published: 2011-04-29, review by: Theinquirer.net

  • Dedicated gaming controls, large high resolution screen
  • Weight, lack of brightness, not the best use of Gingerbread

 
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  Published: 2011-04-25, review by: zomgitscj.com

  • The Xperia Play is made for gaming, and not to be a flagship device. As such, it’s spec list isnt as spec-tacular as the Xperia Arc. It might be very well, one of the easiest phones to recommend for die-hard Playstation Fans out there, or Gamers who w...

 
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  Published: 2011-04-21, review by: mobilementalism.com

  • – should you buy the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play? Yes! OK, I’ll be a little more specific! If you want a mobile phone that gives you the best gaming experience of any phone on the market – either now or any time in the past – then buy the Xperia Play. I...

 
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  Published: 2011-04-07, review by: cellphonequick.com

  • Pleasant feel to button presses, Attractive chassis, Strong speakers, Decent music player,
  • Despite it being rumoured for nigh-on half a decade, the ‘PlayStation Phone’ actually feels like it’s been rush-released, and as such its compromises mean it falls between two stools. There are better and cheaper handsets for everything other than gam...

 
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